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I landed my first payed software developer job, when I was still in school. I think I was 16, or maybe 18. I went to “Arbeitsamt” (german employment center) to ask if I could get a job for summer vacation. It was a shot into the blue, I did not expect anything out of it and the clerk at “Arbeitsamt” gave me to understand that I was spot on. He had nothing in particular for me, but than we started chitchat and he sad: